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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 21st, 2019.

The president is not a white supremacist edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

I'm in Washington, D.C., joining me telephonically,

or not telephonically, but electronically, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale Law School from the Yale Studios.

Hello, Emily, in New Haven. Hello, David. Welcome back from the West Coast. Thank you. It's good to be back on the correct coast again.

And John Dickerson appears to be on vacation. That's going to be what I'm going to guess. He's not here.

And as a result, we have the great pleasure of welcoming back GabFest favorite. Jamel Bowie, New York Times columnist.

Jamel, it's great to have you back. Is this your first time back as a New York Times person as

opposed to as a Slate person? I think so. Yeah, this is the first time back. And thank you for having me.

It's going to all be different now. Who knows how exactly, but it will all be transformed. There's a lot of New York Times in this year. You guys are probably fellow union members and you probably like eat lunch in the cafeteria together and stuff. Actually, definitely not because neither of you ever is in New York. Yeah, we don't eat in the cafeteria. I'm in the union. I don't know about Jamel, though. Derek, are you in the union, Jamel? Is that part of being a columnist? No, part of being a columnist is that I'm outside of the bargaining unit. Although, of course, solidarity forever. That's a topic for another day. Right. On this week's show, the Christchurch massacre and white supremacy, what is this new, I mean, is it a new fascination, this new rise of white supremacy?

Where does it come from?

How can we crush it?

Then, Beto, Biden, Bernie.

Finally, finally, for once, can there be a straight white man as a Democratic nominee

for president at last? Maybe it's possible. Then the Electoral College, can it be abolished? Should it be

abolished? How would it be abolished? Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. Do not forget that next week,

Wednesday, March 27th, we are going to be live at the Lincoln Theater here in Washington, D.C. You can get tickets for that live show at slate.com slash live. And it's going to be wonderful. We're going to have new Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood joining us as a guest. And we are, of course, going to preview, give you a sneak preview into Emily's great new book charged. So we're going to talk about that, and we're, of course, we'll go over the political news of the week. So go to slate.com slash live to get tickets. And Jamel, we're going to be in Charlottesville on April 12th, Friday, April 12th. That's right. TomTom Festival. Yeah, I am joining you. Twice in a month. That's

very good news for us. Go to slate.com slash live. So the Christchurch massacre,

50 people murdered by a gunman at two mosques, a white supremacist Australian. It has horrified

people around the world, but it has not horrified enough people,

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